Rachel GRIFFITH is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester and Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). She is Program Chair of the 2025 World Econometric Society Congress to be held in Seoul Korea. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Economic Association. Among her editorial duties, she is an Editor of the Journal of Political Economy and an Associate Editor of Econometrica.

Her research, published widely in the top international journals, broadly considers issues related to the impacts of government policy on consumers, firms and the functioning of markets. Her specific interests relate to empirical work at the intersection of public economics and industrial organisation and in particular the retail food sector and nutrition. She was awarded two ERC Advanced Grants to study the behaviour of consumers and firms and the impact of government policy in food markets. She has also published widely on innovation, productivity and corporate tax, and she is one of the Principle Investigators on the Economic and Social Research Council's Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the IFS.

Rachel Griffith, joint with Rossi Abi-Rafeh, Pierre Dubois, and Martin O'Connell, will present a paper at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

The Effects of Sin Taxes and Advertising Restrictions in a Dynamic Equilibrium (read abstract, PDF 69.37 KB)

More about Rachel GRIFFITH and her research

Date: MONDAY, March 4th - 2.45 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conference Room

The next Departmental Seminar will host Michèle TERTILT (University of Mannheim) on March 18th.